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The Prime Minister’s tasks
As the PM takes up arms against a sea of troubles it is a good idea to determine which are the battles to fight and where his powers as PM can make the most difference. His five aims set out clearly at the beginning of the year were a good...Read More »
Labour’s devolution model fuelled the SNP
At the end of the last century Labour pushed through a devolved Parliament for Scotland and a devolved Assembly for Wales. They did so claiming it would end the growth of the emerging nationalist parties in both parts of the UK.
Instead in Scotland it gave a platform and more grievance...Read More »
My Article in the Telegraph
The Unionist community in Northern Ireland has been ignored and angered by the actions and words of the European Union. The Northern Ireland Protocol has as its first Article a statement that the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement takes precedence over the Protocol. It states that the constitutional status of...Read More »
More Tax offsets are not as good as a lower rate
Those who battle Treasury orthodoxy of no tax cuts often end up going for a feeble compromise of allowing more tax offsets, tax free allowances and temporary concessions. These are well intentioned and marginally better than unrelieved high taxes, but they will not provide the big boost to investment we...Read More »
End the tax and subsidy machine
One of the joys of tax cutting which even gloomy Treasury advisers should like is the way cutting taxes can allow you to end or cut subsidies. The present government has been dragged into an expensive and poor model of taxing too much then offering subsidies as offsets, or vice...Read More »